IHS: North America 4K TV Shipments Set To Surpass 1080p In 2017

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I will concede that plasma does indeed have better overall picture quality than led, but it also has significant downsides that turned it into a niche product and effectively killed it. The power consumption is terrible.

Seriously? That article said $38/year at five hours a day. That's pretty much free.

It has burn in.

They pretty much solved that with stuff like pixel shift.

You can't use it in a bright room.

Draw the blinds halfway when watching my LED in a bright room as well.

You can't use it with kids or video games.

My son gamed on 50" plasmas for years.

It goes dim over time. Some sets turned pink over time.

Those 50" plasmas are in friend's living rooms, serve as their main tvs to this day.

The list goes on and on. And then you have led which looks almost as good without any of plasma's downsides. I'm glad I'm not a videophile because I can guarantee you that my kids would have killed a plasma by now many times over. It would be like a mirror in my bright living room as well. So if you're a single guy living in a basement and you don't pay for electricity, yeah, get a plasma. For the rest of us led is by far the better choice. Products like plasma don't die for no reason. The people have spoken.

Sometimes products like plasma die for no reason. I can tell you this: I miss the bad ass sports viewing on mine.